Special Education

Weekly Schedule

Language Arts

The nonprofit ReadWorks provides teachers and parents with engaging reading content and resources online for free.

Engage students with thousands of texts on topics they care about most, with standards-aligned lesson supports built for ELA instruction.

All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Explore the collection, select a title and start listening.

Provides engaging reading comprehension activities in English and Spanish. Elementary children with learning disabilities will benefit from dissecting books, such as The Wolf Who Cried Boy and A Pirate’s Life. Short, 15-minute videos are included to teach important reading strategies like visualization and summarizing.

Reading Rockets offers a rich library of classroom strategies, articles, parent tip sheets, FAQs, videos, research briefs and more — providing research-based and best-practice information for educators, parents, and others who work with young readers

An excellent resource for children with learning disabilities like dyslexia. This website records free videos of narrators, and sometimes well-known actors like Eva Longoria, reading children’s books aloud. Students develop their literacy skills by following along with text as the literature comes alive.

Math

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

Easily motivate 1st to 8th grade students to learn and practice math.

Multi-Subject

Starfall.com is a free public service to teach children to read. It includes language arts and mathematics for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade.Starfall activities are research-based and align with Individual and Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics.

Day-to-day projects to keep reading, thinking, and growing.

Do2Learn is a special needs resource website providing youth access to thousands of free elementary-level worksheets for literacy, math, visual discrimination, behavior management, and more. There are also printable picture cards available to promote functional communication in children with Autism.

As we all continue taking precautions during the spread of COVID-19, BrainPOP is here to help you and your curious learners stay informed and on-track.

Free standards aligned videos, interactives, and lesson plans.

Physical activity time will help students boost their immune systems, manage stress, and enjoy this time that they must be away from school. OPEN has created a series of activities that can be done with no manipulative equipment to avoid the spread of germs. Additionally, all activities should be done while students adhere to the social distancing practice of staying six feet apart from others.

PBS

Free access to PBS educational videos

As we all continue taking precautions during the spread of COVID-19, BrainPOP is here to help you and your curious learners stay informed and on-track.

Behavior Supports

Editable visual behavior management token boards are a fun, useful, and effective tool to help manage student behavior in your classroom token economy. Token boards provide students with positive behavior reinforcement by allowing them to pick a reinforcer (reward) and work to earn tokens

Welcome to our amazing Classroom Timer Section! We've decided to put our new fun timers, and timers for classrooms into a nice sub-section. These are great timers for children, or maybe meetings, or anything really.

They just add some extra fun to the usual countdown timers

Visual activity schedules can be defined as a series of images, pictures, photographs, or line drawings used to depict a sequence of events. Frequently, the images are used to prepare the individual for the next activity, the next step of an activity or a sequence of activities.

Social Stories are used to teach particular social skills, such as identifying important cues in a given situation; taking another's point of view; understanding rules, routines, situations, upcoming events or abstract concepts; and understanding expectations.